Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas has called on President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race.
Biden is a leading contender to become the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, but his performance in last week’s debate was widely criticized, with even the New York Times editorial board suggesting he should withdraw.
“I expect him to make the tough and difficult decision to withdraw.”
“Instead of reassuring voters, the president has failed to effectively defend many of his accomplishments and expose many of Trump’s lies,” Doggett asserted. “There is too much at stake to jeopardize Trump’s victory. It is too great a risk to think that we can overturn now what we couldn’t overturn in a year, what we couldn’t overturn in the debates. President Biden saved us from Trump in 2020 and saved our democracy. We must not hand us over to Trump in 2024,” Doggett said in a statement.
“My decision to publicly express these strong concerns was not made lightly and does not in any way diminish my respect for all that President Biden has accomplished. Unlike President Trump, I know that President Biden’s first commitment has always been to our country, not himself, and I expect him to make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw, and I respectfully urge him to do so,” Doggett said.
Jared Golden, a Democratic congressman from Maine, wrote in an opinion piece that he expects Trump to win the election, but “that’s OK.”
“Democratic anxiety after the debate is based on the idea that a Trump victory is not just a political defeat but a particular threat to our democracy. I reject that premise. Unlike Biden and many other candidates, I refuse to join a campaign to scare voters with the idea that Trump will end our democratic institutions,” Golden said. I have written.
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